Re: Ontario Government Computers: Prudes Veto Vulgarity in Cyberspace

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From: SEGAL HENRY ALAN
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 1994 23:59

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In article <CqH9nx.2Lq@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
Paul Prescod <papresco@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>            ...                                 Because of the nature of
>the BBS, a hacker will not get as much opportunity to test out passwords
>as on unix, where they can download /etc/passwd.  Therefore, there are only

That reminds me of a question I had:

Is it possible for a person to have 2 passwords for 1 account?

Here is my reasoning:
When your password is checked, what you type (as your password) is encrypted
and compared with the entry in /etc/passwd.  (There is no decryption 
algorithm.)  If the encryption guaranteed that no 2 passwords would have 
identical encrypted forms, that would seem to make it easier to crack.
So it seems more likely that no such guarantee exists.
Therefore 2 passwords might work for the same account.

Am I right?

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From: segalh@ecf.toronto.edu (SEGAL  HENRY ALAN)
Subject: Re: Ontario Government Computers: Prudes Veto Vulgarity in Cyberspace
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